Ron English Guitar Lessons

My teaching approach:

My teaching approach: equip the student with skills and materials for the kind of music he or she wants to play. I usually require students learn reading skills along with technical studies. My pro experience includes recording with DSO and Gladys Knight, & road work with The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, and the Supremes' Mary Wilson, as well Michigan based jazz artists and broadway show companies.

My influences are:

As a player: Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Steve Cropper, Pat Metheny, Grant Green. As a teacher: Mel Bay, Joe Fava, and my father, Norman English.

My guitar lessons take place in:

The teacher's studio

Guitar Lessons with me take place in the following areas:

In Detroit, beginner classes at Marygrove College and WCCC; private lessons at Marygrove & my studio

Guitar Techniques:

Lead guitar, Rhythm guitar, Fingerstyle, Improvisation, Jamming Skills, Reading Music, Music Theory, Scales and Exercises

Your first guitar lesson with me might include the following:

In the first lesson, I ask what the student wants to accomplish, and I ask the student to play something he or she likes.

A guitar lesson with me might entail the following:

First we review and maybe tweak previously learned material, and then we build on that to learn somehing new - a new piece, a new area of the fingerboard, a new technique, or even a new way of approaching music.

The qualities I look for in an ideal guitar student might include the following:

The ideal guitar student is one who faithfully practices the assigned material, and goes beyond to find his or her own personal application.